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- Today is the 69th Anniversary of D-Day But We Also Remember Operation Bagration
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- Abraham Path An attempt to physically bridge the chasm between Islam, Christianity and Judaism
- Art not Hate A really interesting site about creative responses to conflict, especially artistic ones
- Benny's Blog Great site from an evangelical Christian Church of England/Episcopalian vicar old friend of mine Benny who is contesting Christian condemnation of homosexuality
- Correlates of War Project Excellent source of information on all forms of armed conflict
- Creating Reciprocity Great site about the role of empathy and reciprocity in conflict
- End of Economic Growth: Richard Heinberg Great site for information on why and how economic growth may be over; with profound implications for future conflict
- Equality Trust My old contact Richard Wilkinson’s data based site on economic inequality: an often missed vertical element in conflict
- Grist Organization I like the data driven approach of this environmental site
- Jerome Slater Really interesting Middle East expert and blogger with a mind of his own
- Josh Berer Interesting site on Arabic art by someone who has lived in the Yemen
- Move Him Into the Sun A blog devoted to World War 1 war poetry with unusual selections and critical comment. Very generative
- Natasa in Malawi I am enjoying Natasa’s (from Slovenia) coming to terms with life and working for an NGO in Malawi.
- Peace Mapping A really useful site that shows visual ways to re-frame conflict
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- Right Brain Blogger A really interesting insightful blog on creativity and its blocks. Really powerful insights that will help in conflict, especially our internal conflicts
- Roger the Surf Blog on Climate Change from a Skeptics Viewpoint This blog is a monument to Confirmation Bias in the direction of Climate Change Skepticism. That said it has a lot of reference material some peer reviewed and is therefore a useful resource if you can get past the rhetoric of one of my correspondents.
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Category Archives: Rise of China
Amnesty International Annual Report on Executions
Amnesty International Report on executions is at http://bit.ly/10KEuOe It is summarized in this diagram that puts the US to shame in the company it keeps: China, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Sudan….
World Water Usage Mapped
I love maps and those from World Mapper in particular, which show various perspectives on country’s income, resource use etc at: http://www.worldmapper.org/posters/worldmapper_map104_ver5.pdf I particularly liked this map on Water Usage in which the area of the country is proportional to … Continue reading
Cross Cultural Differences: Global Map
Cross cultural differences are a potentially important element in conflict. My old friend Stephen Rhinesmith, an expert in such matters, used to say that 90% of conflict within cross cultural teams is nothing to do with cultural differences, but just … Continue reading
The Fertility Implosion
We have spent our lives fearing the population explosion. It was interesting to hear what we will hear far more about over the next half century: the population implosion. Some of J G Ballard’s novels, like ‘Vermilion Sands‘ included a future … Continue reading
The Earth is Full: Paul Gilding
Great TED talk from Paul Gilding about our need to get real about the Earth’s constraints and overcome our fear-based denial: This is Paul and his website: http://paulgilding.com/
War Statistics: Steven Pinker’s new book ‘The Better Angels of our Nature’
Steven Pinker’s new book ‘The Better Angels of our Nature: the Decline of Violence in History and Its Causes ‘ relies heavily on statistics from the following source: The Correlates of War Project at: http://www.correlatesofwar.org/ And Matthew White founder of … Continue reading
Posted in Conflict Book Reviews, Conflict History, Conflict Processes, Conflict Statistics, Rise of China, Ways to handle conflict
Tagged Atrocitology, better angels of our nature, catastrophe, correlates of war, Correlates of War Project, Hemoclysm, mass murder, Matthew White, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of our Nature
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American Decline? Robert Kagan’s View
I don’t always agree with Robert Kagan, who seems to me to pay insufficient attention to domestic American issues in his analysis of US foreign policy, but I think he is longish piece in ‘The New Republic’ (via 3 Quarks … Continue reading
Posted in Conflict History, Conflict Processes, Rise of China, The Rise of India, Ways to handle conflict
Tagged American decline, American Empire, american leadership, charles krauthammer, global responsibilities, imperial overstretch, piece in the new republic, robert kagan, world war ii
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Top Ten Lessons of the Cold War for Future China/US Relations
One of my earliest memories of world events was sitting in a Latin class in high school waiting to see the outcome of the Cuban Missile crisis and the interception of the Soviet ships by the US Navy. Would they … Continue reading
Posted in Conflict Processes, Rise of China, Top Ten Conflict Tips from Great Thinkers, Uncategorized, Ways to handle conflict
Tagged Cold War, Exercise Able Archer, Future China/US relations, Great Power conflicts, lessons of the Cold War, rise of China, Soviet threat to China, Stanislav Petrov
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‘How China Can Defeat America’ by Chinese Professor Yan Xuetong
I happen to think that the most interesting and significant issue of our times is the rise of China. This blog is also dedicated to the idea we should listen to and understand the other side in conflict, without losing … Continue reading
Future Large Wars of the 21st Century
This blog is inspired by the idea that the same cognitive errors we make in every day life are reflected at increasing levels of scale right up to large scale wars, which killed 150 million people in the 20th century. … Continue reading
